PEUPUETEM INDIANS

PEUPUETEM INDIANS. The Peupuetem (Peupuepuem) Indians lived on the north bank of the lower Rio Grande in the middle eighteenth century. The maps of Jiménez Moreno and G. Saldivar place them in the area of present Cameron and Hidalgo counties, but the documents indicate only that they lived somewhere downstream from present Rio Grande City. The name is said to mean "those who speak differently."